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My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
I like eating small meals frequently throughout the day, it helps me keep up my metabolism and get more out of my training.
Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.
Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.
All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.
I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.
I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had; the life lessons I've learned along the way are just completely invaluable.
As a professional snowboarder, my goal is to educate and create awareness around the issues we're facing with climate change.
There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.
I'm a Midwestern girl; I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton until I was ten years old. Then my whole life changed.
I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.
The whole goal with this thing [Ultra Natural] from the start was to really let rider's style define them and their line choice.
I love dried mangoes, walnuts, and goji berries. The mix provides iron, antioxidants, and omega-3s and really kicks up my energy.
I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team.
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley.
Sometimes in life, when we really want something, we can approach it in a way that might actually be closing us off from achieving it.
Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.
I hate to say it to the kids out there but I just kind of blew off everything and made snowboarding the number one priority in my life
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
We're all doing what we love. It's how we express ourselves - operating in a space where you don't know if something is possible or not.
After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
When I first started snowboarding, it was something that was only really done in the winter. Mount Hood in Oregon was the magical exception.
I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've seen Him be faithful in those things.
Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.
Snowboarding has really shaped the person I've become, and I consider every moment a good one because every one has led me to where I am now.
I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'
From any traumatic injury, you're going to experience a lack of confidence. There's a whole process you have to go through to break free of that.
The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.
If you're stressed at work, or before a competition, or if you need to be energized, or relaxed, there's so many scents that kind of take you there.
What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.
I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don't have to go get a whole brand-new set of sheets.
We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.
We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.
I work out hard; that way, I can eat whatever I want. If you have a hard time regulating your diet, pushing yourself at the gym will help you keep the pounds off.
For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.